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Fox are releasing a steelbook of Robocop "20th Anniversary Edition" soon with both cuts of the film and all the special features of the Criterion and the R2 SE plus three new featurettes. The art ain't great! So I see no need to triple dip! It is a R1 release so I am not sure if it will be released on R2!

darth raph wrote: These "definitive editions" are sloppy at best! Apart from Fight Club and Mr and Mrs Smith there is nothing new on them!

Ah, but the prices that you can pick them up for ARE good! HMV are still selling the old vanilla Mr & Mrs Smith for £7.99 and the 4 disc Kingdom of Heaven set for £24.99. I got both of the definitive editions for £8.99 each in what is definitely superior packaging.

These "definitive editions" are sloppy at best! Apart from Fight Club and Mr and Mrs Smith there is nothing new on them! They are just transferring what was on the old editions on to these new "definitive editions"! Fox are so sloppy they have even transferred the "first look" at I Robot from the old se of Master and Commander on to the new steel book! There are no new special features on the classic titles like Great Escape! I am pretty sure that there are less special features on these that the old standard se's! I could be wrong though! The cinema reserve titles are excellent though! Midnight Cowboy coming in July. Now I hope Fox do the same with Grapes of Wrath, Gentleman's Agreement, How Green Is My Valley and Diary Of Anne Frank. I also hope Fox do the same with the vast MGM back catalogue as well.

I'm not totally sure, but I think FOX tried these versions over on this side of the pond before, minus the tins about 2 years ago with all of the older titles. Obviously it must have taken off in the UK if there are newer titles out now too.

merlinm wrote: Hiya, I was wondering if the US will get Kindom of Heaven Def Ed before the UK does. The video quality in KOH Director's Cut was lower than the other versions.

Wow thats surprising. The R1 version of the movie had one of the best standard def transfers I've ever seen.

I am not impressed with this from Fox at all! This is all to do with them having got MGM recently. They seem to be releasing them in these steel packages. The problem I have is that apart from Fight Club there doesnt seem to be anything new on these new "definitive editions" from the old se's they brought out on Fox or MGM! Why cant we have "definitive editions" of stuff like Midnight Cowboy? Is this all a triple or quadruple dip?

Hiya, I was wondering if the US will get Kindom of Heaven Def Ed before the UK does. The video quality in KOH Director's Cut was lower than the other versions. I hope this Def Edition has better picture quality. If anyone is buying it, could you update on this? Cheers.

I picked up The Terminator. The audio/visual aspect of this disc is extremely good. Whether the entire range will be like this across the board is open for debate. I love the artwork on that League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, simple but effective.

I've just dug out my old Terminator SE and the discs have that misty look all over them (Coulnd't be arsed to phone up for replacements), though now they've gone crusty too! So will definetly be getting Terminator.

Hey, if you buy into it... Oh, and I dunno. Fox never even made the artwork available for these.

Someone on another forum is claiming that the new version of Fight Club sounds much better than the old R1/R2 (and presumably other regions). This, he says, is because the old discs had audio errors and 'dropouts'. I never noticed any, and the audio-visual elements got universally favourable reviews when it came out, so I don't know how true it is. Not gonna buy it again to find out.

Just checked my old R1 of Fight Club and while the 2.0 Surround track is okay, the 5.1 track definitely has some audio dropouts. Not total silence, but the volume is messed up during Operation Latte Thunder (for example).

Has anyone bought any of them? I was looking at them in HMV today and most do have DTS (BOOYEAH!). So was wondering what the difference was between them and the special/ultimate editions previously released. (Except the drop dead gorgeous steelbook cases they come in.)

Is there a difference in picture quality? Are there any more extras? Will Chris b***h about how <nerd voice> DTS isn't technically any better it's only louder and the 1.21 jigawatts needed to blah blah ?</nerd voice>